2019 Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship

Prize: Competitive Fellowships

Description

‘Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples: 1000 Years of Australian History.

FL190100161: This fellowship aims to examine one thousand years of dynamic encounters between Australia’s Indigenous peoples and voyagers from the sea. The project expects to use an interdisciplinary, multilingual team to generate new understandings by synthesising historical, archaeological, anthropological and linguistic sources from Australian and European collections. Expected outcomes include an innovative reconstruction of Australia’s role in global exploration, enduring international collaborations, and a massive open, interactive and translated database. This should provide significant benefits, creating a new transdisciplinary intellectual school, with the potential to recast Australia’s history, national identity, and place in the world.
Degree of recognitionInternational
Granting OrganisationsAustralian Research Council (ARC)